AQo

AQo (ace-queen offsuit) wins 64.4% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 14th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 8.3% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 26.1% and its rank moves to 15; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 17.5% for rank 17. An ace-high hand — watch out for kicker trouble and domination.

Its suited/offsuit twin AQs runs at 66.2% (rank 10), a gap of 1.8 points. Losing the shared suit costs 1.8 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is ATs at 64.6%, and directly below is AJo at 63.6%, so three hands are packed into a band of 1 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, AQo is a favourite against 152 of them and an underdog against 16. Its best matchup is Q2o at 77.7% and its worst is AA at 7.2% — a spread of 70.5 points, which is why calling AQo simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

AQo dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against Q2o at 77.7%. It is dominated by 2 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves AQo with only 24.5%. A single kicker can move the number by tens of points, and the full table below lists every one of those opponents.

Within the 78 offsuit hands it comes 2 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 1 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 32.1 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, AQo lands +13.4 points from the middle of the pack, and 13 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 64.4% against one opponent, 46.9% against two, 30.3% against four and 17.5% against eight. That last figure is 158% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 9 points, and it arrives 0.9% of the time (12 of 1,326 combinations).

One caveat worth repeating: every number on this page assumes the opponent holds a completely random hand and that the pot goes to showdown. Real opponents hold ranges, and a range that has already put money in is stronger than random — which is exactly why AQo reads as 64.4% here but plays worse than that against a raise. Use the 168 rows in the table below to see which specific holdings are the problem, rather than treating the headline figure as a verdict on the hand.